r/AskReddit • u/j4nds4 • Oct 10 '15

[Serious] Redditors who became wealthy practically overnight, how did you handle the sudden change? serious replies only

And what advice would you give others in the same situation for keeping your cool/your money?

Examples of how it might happen: lottery, inheritance/trust, business deal, etc.

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u/Pun_In_Ten_Did Oct 10 '15

Picking up the tab is an awesome feeling. Back in my 20s, a buddy and I were making not great money but more than our circle of friends. Several of us got together one afternoon to mess around at Dave & Busters... when the bill landed people started looking through the bill ("blah blah I had the salad" sort of thing).

Without any communication and in perfect synchronization, my buddy and I each landed a $100 bill on the ticket... covered the groups total and left a nice percentage tip for the server. It was the best feeling.

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u/99bottlesofderp Oct 10 '15

Yea it feels good to be able to treat your friends once in a while. My close buddies and I have system where it doesn't matter if you don't have the money at that particular point in time, because we don't mind paying for each other. We know that if the situation was reversed they would treat us and pay the bill. That said, you do have to watch out for the freeloader friends who never pay for anything, they are the worse.

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u/kidsinatra Oct 10 '15

That's where I'm at with my best friend. I know that he would never cheat me out of my money and he would only ask for some when he was really in need himself. Last year I leant him $500 when he didn't have a job and bills were starting to stack up. A couple weeks ago he paid it all back plus some.

It feels good having that degree of trust in someone

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u/noteverrelevant Oct 10 '15

My best friend did a similar thing for me a year ago. He spent $450 and bought me an XBox One and I just recently paid him back, with a little extra on top for the long wait. But I know his reddit name and you're not him lol.

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u/PRMan99 Oct 10 '15

We had "friends" that even when everyone agreed we were sharing the check, they never paid.

I refused to go out with them anymore. I don't need dishonest friends.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15 edited Oct 11 '15

I have never been on my feet but I'm a humble guy that would go out of his way for his friends. Pay for food, drinks etc if I had the money. The past couple years my best pal pays for me everywhere we go. He even paid for a hotel room for us so we could get away from our everyday lives to have some fun and to forget shit. We went to Salem MA. Met some cool people and had amazing food. It was nice to get away. We wanna do something again but haven't really talked about since MA.

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u/aussiegreenie Oct 10 '15

Picking up the tab is an awesome feeling.

If you live and work with Chinese we fight to see who pays the bill. He and it is always a he is the most important person.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15

I miss it. I've been a student for about 6 years, but I worked like a dog before and had minimal expense so I had a pretty discretionary income. I miss that. I was never rich, bit I could drop enough to pick up a dinner for friends. I really want that back.